Klarinet Archive - Posting 000244.txt from 1996/03

From: Bill Page <BPage3@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: Simple Instruments (was Cleveland Teacher)
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 15:30:17 -0500

Hey, folks, I've been away since Christmas, just came back in time for this
thread (or maybe too late for it, but why quibble?).

My violin/piano playing *ex* wife used to insist that her instruments took
better musicianship than my clarinet/flute/saxophone/bassoon did. After all,
she insisted, with the piano she was playing multiple lines (and sometimes
multiple rhythms) while I just had to worry about ten fingers.

Because she was always right, I never told her she was wrong...now I just
don't have to listen to her.

But imagine her surprise when our piano/violin playing daughter started
playing flute (very well, brag, brag), and began to comment that getting it
right on flute was *so* much more challenging than violin!

It has also been my experience that non-piano players count better than
keyboarders.

BTW, as a kid my father was a piano teacher. Every time I tried to practice
it turned into a lesson (even though I was taking from a neighbor), so I used
that as an excuse to keep from practicing. Hence, I played piano just well
enough to pass the "piano barrier" as a music ed major, without ever being
much better.

Glad to be back on the net...just reading the choral and TQM folks was
getting boring.

Bill Page
Spring Hill, FL